Assignment File attachments

Assignment File attachments

by David Pike -
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Moodle 2.4.1

I'm creating a course where the instructor wants the students to create 30 separate documents over the life of the course.  I was thinking that I could just use the Assignment activity and let the students just add the documents to the assignment each week - but the max allowed is 20.  Any way to change this?  Or is there another method to accomplish this (like... a student folder they could use?)

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by ben reynolds -

If they are entirely different files, why not make 30 different assignments? Makes record keeping much easier.

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Re: Assignment File attachments

by David Pike -

Well, it's just one ongoing assignment among many.  It's a course that lasts an entire school year, and there's probably 20 assignments as it is... making it 50 would seem daunting (and cluttered).  I guess I'll have to teach them how to use Google Drive and share folders with me... /-:

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by Mary Cooch -
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Actually, if you are happy or able to dig into the code you can probably find the file to change the default number of uploaded files to more than 20. I recall doing it in 1.9 (when assignments were separate and it was the Advanced Uploading of Files) and I don't see why it should be different now, except you would have to look at a different file.

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by Richard Oelmann -
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In my moodle2.4 it appears to be in the file /mod/assign/submission/file/locallib.php on line 34

define('ASSIGNSUBMISSION_FILE_MAXFILES', 20);

HTH

Richard

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Re: Assignment File attachments

by David Pike -

Thank you!  I'll see if I can't track it down